Is it common practice to charge people to drink from the water cooler? It's making me laugh but I think it's fucked up.

Joe Cool Clang it has a nice ring to it.

(03-26-2016, 08:16 AM)F.U. Wrote: My OL likes bottled, but she does drink our well water. If we are going somewhere she likes the convenience of the bottles.
Me, I don't drink much water so when I do, I drink whatever we have on hand. If we have bottled I drink that. No bottles I drink well.

In NE, we have well water, (340 feet deep) it's ICE cold, crystal clear, and I like it and drink it. Better half still drinks bottled water, go figure.

(Here in SNAKEland, ( I HATE SNAKES) the city "tap water" doesn't taste all that good, so it gets "filtered", then I drink it, and we also cook with it filtered)

(03-28-2016, 03:51 AM)Love Child Wrote: So tap water is available then......

Good grief! I never heard of a water cooler club! Those things are only $5 to refill at the hardware store! what are they doing with all that extra cash?! Does no one use the sink?

It's a service that comes around every two weeks or so and delivers 5 gallon bottles for the cooler. You have to pay for that.

(03-28-2016, 09:15 AM)Carsman Wrote:

(03-26-2016, 08:16 AM)F.U. Wrote: My OL likes bottled, but she does drink our well water. If we are going somewhere she likes the convenience of the bottles.
Me, I don't drink much water so when I do, I drink whatever we have on hand. If we have bottled I drink that. No bottles I drink well.

In NE, we have well water, (340 feet deep) it's ICE cold, crystal clear, and I like it and drink it. Better half still drinks bottled water, go figure.

(Here in SNAKEland, ( I HATE SNAKES) the city "tap water" doesn't taste all that good, so it gets "filtered", then I drink it, and we also cook with it filtered)

I am kinda lucky in the water department. Both the water in town and the water here at the lake are very good. Like your well ours is deep and clean. We still get it tested every year just to be safe, but have never had a issue with it. Our house in town runs city water and even though the town sits on the Mississippi river it is one of the best water systems around. I really don't know why we drink bottled, other than the grab and go convenience of it.

People should be able to get a drink of water at work and not have to pay for it. My God. It's the fuckin' state of New York who employees these people, right? If they are like most other state employers the waste already incurred is ridiculous. I see it in their road crews almost every time I'm out on the road. They'll send a half dozen people to do a job that requires one person. Clang, I'm annoyed on your behalf.

(03-28-2016, 10:14 AM)Duchess Wrote:

People should be able to get a drink of water at work and not have to pay for it. My God. It's the fuckin' state of New York who employees these people, right? If they are like most other state employers the waste already incurred is ridiculous. I see it in their road crews almost every time I'm out on the road. They'll send a half dozen people to do a job that requires one person. Clang, I'm annoyed on your behalf.

I have always heard that NY tap water tastes awesome.

I didn't think to drink the tap water while in NY, but I've heard that it's one of the reasons their pizza is so good. Florida tap water taste like shit, you can even see little particles floating in it.

My friends & I rented a house on a lake for a Summer in southern New York and the tap water there smelled like rotten eggs.

(03-28-2016, 12:00 PM)sally Wrote: I didn't think to drink the tap water while in NY, but I've heard that it's one of the reasons their pizza is so good. Florida tap water taste like shit, you can even see little particles floating in it.

One has to wonder if those "particles" have anything to with all of the "dumb ass news stories" that come out of Florida. Last month some guy threw an alligator through the drive up window at a fast food joint.

(03-28-2016, 10:14 AM)Duchess Wrote:

People should be able to get a drink of water at work and not have to pay for it. My God. It's the fuckin' state of New York who employees these people, right? If they are like most other state employees the waste already incurred is ridiculous. I see it in their road crews almost every time I'm out on the road. They'll send a half dozen people to do a job that requires one person. Clang, I'm annoyed on your behalf.

The state has to recoup their losses where ever they can! $3 at a time.

(03-28-2016, 12:05 PM)Duchess Wrote:

My friends & I rented a house on a lake for a Summer in southern New York and the tap water there smelled like rotten eggs.

Yummy!

(03-28-2016, 12:05 PM)Duchess Wrote:

My friends & I rented a house on a lake for a Summer in southern New York and the tap water there smelled like rotten eggs.

I think that is common in some areas where the pipes aren't used for a while. My mom had a place in Mississippi like that, but we only went there once a year and if we let the water run for 5-10 minutes the smell went away.

Strangely, I don't recall any of us giving one single shit, we were all teenagers so...

(03-28-2016, 03:43 PM)Duchess Wrote:

Strangely, I don't recall any of us giving one single shit, we were all teenagers so...

I see, there was no water drinking involved

It was the first time any of us had spent extended time away from our home & parents. I smoked out of a hookah that was taller than me. That was such a great summer. We bathed in the lake and I can see the ivory soap floating in my minds eye.

(03-28-2016, 04:54 PM)Duchess Wrote:

It was the first time any of us had spent extended time away from our home & parents. I smoked out of a hookah that was taller than me. That was such a great summer. We bathed in the lake and I can see the ivory soap floating in my minds eye.

Wow, they had Ivory soap back then?

(03-28-2016, 03:51 AM)Love Child Wrote: So tap water is available then......

Good grief! I never heard of a water cooler club! Those things are only $5 to refill at the hardware store! what are they doing with all that extra cash?! Does no one use the sink?

The sink is used for washing hands and washing the coffee pot/coffee cups.

(03-28-2016, 10:14 AM)Duchess Wrote:

People should be able to get a drink of water at work and not have to pay for it. My God. It's the fuckin' state of New York who employees these people, right? If they are like most other state employers the waste already incurred is ridiculous. I see it in their road crews almost every time I'm out on the road. They'll send a half dozen people to do a job that requires one person. Clang, I'm annoyed on your behalf.

Thank you.

(03-28-2016, 11:49 AM)Blindgreed1 Wrote: I have always heard that NY tap water tastes awesome.

It did in the 80's anyway, back when Hoosick Falls won the award for best tasting water. Now its all Pretty Fucking Old Ass tasting.